Remember the Time Britney Spears Threw Shade at Megyn Kelly in Her Music Video?

News broke today that Fox News star Megyn Kelly is allegedly leaving the network for a splashy gig at NBC News—and people aren't exactly happy about it. While Kelly was a sympathetic and resilient figure during the 2016 election after the abhorrent way Donald Trump treated her, it doesn't excuse the abhorrent things she's said herself during her tenure at Fox News. Gawker neatly outlined some of Kelly's worst offenses here, including her vehement opposition to the idea that Santa Claus could be black.

But Gawker failed to include what I view as Kelly's biggest crime of all: The time she called Queen of the Universe Britney Spears' song "If U Seek Amy" "profane," "lame," and "offensive." BritBrit stans, I know you remember this all too well.

It was March 2009. Spears had just released "If U Seek Amy," a stomping slice of bubblegum bliss, as a single from her album Circus. Radio DJs were thrilled because the song was fire. Fans were thrilled because the townspeople were finally going to hear this piece of sacred Scripture. Even my mother was thrilled, and she hates Britney Spears.

Megyn Kelly, however, was not thrilled. Nope. Instead of celebrating this iconic moment with a cake shaped like Max Martin, Kelly morphed into the pop music Grinch. The electro-pop anti-Christ. Every gay man's nightmare. And how did she do this, you ask? By spending six minutes on America's Newsroom ripping "If U Seek Amy" to shreds and suggesting that it was too inappropriate for children to hear on the radio. OK, so maybe "If U Seek Amy" spells out "f-ck" when said quickly, but that's irrelevant. The word of Godney only does glorious things for children, Ms. Kelly. Glorious! No one should ever debate whether Queen B's tunes should be played uncensored on the radio. The answer is always yes.

And yet this emotionally scarring debate actually happened. Kelly and some district attorney named David Wohl dragged Spears through the mud. The only saving grace was legal analyst Mercedes Colwin, who said the FCC had no right to censor "If U Seek Amy." She is now one of Spears' 12 disciples. Watch this all go down in the video, below:

Of course, Spears had the last laugh. (Doesn't she always?) The pop princess took the "If U Seek Amy" video as an opportunity to throw some massive shade at Kelly. The video opens with a news reporter, who looks just like Kelly, saying the phrase, "If U Seek Amy" in a condescending tone. The clip closes with the same reporter saying, "Doesn't make any sense, does it?" This happens to be exactly what IRL Kelly said about "If U Seek Amy" in the original America's Newsroom clip. It's pure poetry. Pulitzer-worthy.

I've had an ax to grind with Kelly ever since this incident. NBC should make sure that its newest hire doesn't still have these contentious feelings about Lady Spears (and that she stops spouting racist conspiracy theories). The American people won't stand for it.